Grace Venus
Founder of Venus Food | Venus R & D | Chief Advisor & Consultant
Grace Venus is a leading independent product development consultant. Her expertise lies in formulation, concept development and custom ingredient sourcing. With nearly 20 years of experience in the beverage and food sectors and many successful brands launched, Grace brings a vast knowledge on all aspects of the beverage and food industries. Grace has supported hundreds of successful brand launches. Grace and her husband Sean Venus, also opened a distillery in 2013 Venus Spirits . Although she is still dedicated working with her own clientele at Venus R &D, being a brand co-founder has allowed her the ability to have first-hand knowledge of the many challenges new brands face.
Rachel Nye venter, MScIH, MHS
Health Scientist | Ingredient SOurcing & Curation
Rachel Nye Venter has worked in the personal care industry for over 15 years. Rachel provides niche skin care, beauty and nutraceutical innovation expertise from concept to market launch –including product discovery and development, designing and overseeing clinical trials, medical and science writing, ingredient sourcing and natural preservation applications. As the skin care brand founder of BOTANē Skin Actives her focus continues to be innovating sustainable, clean label nutritional supplements and topical skin care products.
We think being nerdy scientists is fun. Grace and Rachel have a wide range of experience and expertise providing red carpet service from beverage, food, nutritional supplements, skin and personal care brands. Together, we take a personal and customized approach to product development (refreshing, right?). You’re not just another product at Venus R & D, we guide you through the entire process one step at a time. From start up’s to legacy labels, we are here for your next project.
“Trying to find a beverage formulator who knows their stuff from A to Z is like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Well, I found it in Grace. She’s a talented formulator, but her value add from an advisory and supply chain standpoint has been critical. Sometimes, getting a good product made is the easier part of the journey. Having someone like Grace with valuable industry knowledge and experience beyond the liquid is critical to success.”